Potter v. Homestead Preservation Ass'n

EXUM, Chief Justice.

The principal issue presented in this appeal is whether a partner who can establish an oral partnership agreement governing real property is entitled to recovery in quantum meruit for her contributions to the partnership. We hold that she is not. Her remedies are limited to those afforded her under partnership law.

This is an action for breach of a partnership agreement allegedly governing two tracts of land and, in the alternative, recovery in quantum meruit. As to one tract the trial court entered a directed verdict against plaintiff but submitted her quantum meruit claim…